Announcing ZONAR Album Release Tour

Announcing ZONAR Album Release Tour

We are stoked to announce ZONAR (2026), our newest project and upcoming album. With this project, we push our sound further by immersing the acoustic string quartet in the sonic worlds of electronic music. Through unconventional techniques, prepared strings and collective composition, the music explores textures of EDM, ambient, and experimental genres—entirely without electronics—creating an […]

Recording our debut album

We continue to be absorbed in our creative process towards the recording of our first album. A process that started early 2022 with our first artistic residency since George joined the quartet, and which bore fruit at our concert on the island of La Palma. We plan to do the recording at the end of […]

Autumn newsletter

Dear music lover, We hope you have been enjoying a fantastic summer. We have certainly been a bit quieter than usual but we have a lot of news to share with you nonetheless. Electric Amazigh Canarias Tour For our fans in the Canary Islands, we have very good news. This month we will be presenting […]

Album release: Electric Amazigh

We have got some great news: today we officially announce that our album Electric Amazigh will be released on Bandcamp 16 September through our Bandcamp page. And, even better, as of today it is available for preorder via this link! A physical copy of the album will be available at €15 (excl shipping), digital downloads at €10. If […]

A new face & Electric Amazigh update

Dear music lover, Hopefully you are doing alright in these strange times, where live music has become a rare commodity. Now that the vaccination campaign is getting up to speed, we can slowly start looking forward to the reopening of society. And boy, do we long for that! In this newsletter we will look back […]

Summer News

Hello everyone! We’re back to share some news with you! Academy of Improvising Strings We are looking back on a successful first edition of the Academy of Improvising Strings last May, with 27 string players from all over the world. It was quite something organizing this, together with Tim Kliphuis, for the first time, and […]

Academy of Improvising Strings & Vlog

Last January we went back to the Canary Islands with violist/singer Roland Satterwhite (USA). In the fall of 2018, our EP ‘Songs for flying’ (available here) was recorded in Berlin and fortunately, it didn’t take too long for us to play together again. It didn’t go unnoticed either: all of our concerts on Gran Canaria […]

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Youtube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ4iPWDvY74

One of our tightest tunes that we ever released, composed by our talented violinist, George Dumitriu! We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the wonderful audience that surrounded us and filled the atmosphere with their incredible energy.

Recorded at Batavierhuis on May 13, 2023 Special thanks to all the Batavierhuis crew.

Camera and editing by Felipe Pipi. 2nd Camera by Tijmen de Vries Sound mixing by Pablo Rodríguez.

Tour Dates

January 30, 2026

ZONAR – Album Release Tour

Jazzpodium de Tor

Enschede

The Netherlands

January 30, 2026

North Sea String Quartet ft. Engegård Quartet

String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam

Amsterdam

The Netherlands

January 30, 2026

ZONAR – Album Release Tour

Amare

Den Haag

The Netherlands

March 5, 2026

ZONAR – Album Release Tour

Brebl

Nijmegen

The Netherlands

March 6, 2026

ZONAR – Album Release Tour

De Muziekhaven

Zaandam

The Netherlands

March 22, 2026

ZONAR – Album Release Tour

Pand-P podium

Eindhoven

The Netherlands

April 7, 2026

ZONAR – Album Release Tour

St. Aegtenkapel, Amersfoort

Amersfoort

The Netherlands

April 17, 2026

ZONAR – Album Release Tour

Jazz in de Fruitvis

Rotterdam

The Netherlands

May 3, 2026

ZONAR – Album Release Tour

Jazztage Gronau

Gronau

Germany

May 31, 2026

ZONAR – Album Release Tour

Dudok Muziekdagen

Kampen

The Netherlands

October 3, 2026

ZONAR – Album Release Tour

Orange Jazz Days, TivoliVredenburg

Utrecht

The Netherlands